Prominent ****** Who Became FBI Informant Is Released

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Prominent ****** Who Became FBI Informant Is Released
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The ****** who cofounded the shadowy LulzSec group, but who then helped the U.S. government disrupt at least 300 cyberattacks while working as an FBI informant, is **w a free man.

A Manhattan district court judge granted Hector Xavier Monsegur, better k**wn by his ****** moniker "Sabu," a sentence of time served and one year of supervised release on Tuesday. Monsegur, who had served seven months in 2012 before being released on bail, finally appeared in court after prosecutors asked his sentencing to be postponed seven times.

See also: U.S. Charges Chinese Government ******s With Cyberspying (http://mashable.com/2014/05/19/us-charges-chinese-government-******s-with-cyberspying/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


The U.S. government asked Judge Loretta Preska for leniency in a court filing (http://www.wired.com/2014/05/sabu-time-served-sentence/?utm_content=buffer363c7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) on Friday, given Monsegur's "extraordinarily valuable and productive" work with the FBI. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/lulzsec-leader-fbi-informant-sabu-released/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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